Significant Developments

The important partnership between the Trust and two local churches, the Raffles Community Church and the Belle Vue Church of the Nazarene continues to develop. In this partnership the Trust assists in the provision of the Youth and Community Work for both churches providing an integrated and unified approach to the needs of the local community which is primarily the West of Carlisle.

Recent developments have included the entering into of a licence between the Trust and the City of Carlisle Council which enables the Trust to occupy another building on the estate. This building is known as Community House and will be occupied primarily by the Education team of the Trust. This separation provides much needed expansion space for the alternative curriculum programme to develop.

Adjacent to the Community House building is a Multi-User-Games-Area (MUGA) which our Youth team has full access to together with a Youth Hall, also adjacent to the Community House building, This provides a permanent base in the area for our Youth Work.

A Sports Cage was purchased recently for use across the City of Carlisle as a means of engaging with young people and encouraging their access of sporting activities. This Cage can be hired by other groups for their own projects. The Cage, called the ‘Coliseum’ is wholly portable and capable of being used both on hard surfaces or grass.

The joint commissioning of the Trust with Barnardo's by the government for the delivery of the Triple P Parenting programme within Carlisle and surrounding area continues to be an area of development for the Trust. The area of Family Support, not only in the area of the Family Centre, is continuing to develop and further announcements will be made in due course concerning this.